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Teaching our youth to vote

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Rising from the ashes: 1812 Homestead to rebuild Crowdfunding effort underway to rebuild historic education center that burned last month

Like a phoenix, the 1812 Homestead Farm & Museum is rising from the ashes that saw a fire ravage the campus last month. Authorities are treating the Aug. 27 blaze, which destroyed two buildings and damaged several others, as a possible arson. The owners are undeterred at the devastation that reduced a By Pete DeMola beloved local institution to ash and plan on rebuilding. pete@suncommunitynews.com For decades, the 1812 Homestead, located about three miles north of downtown Willsboro, has facilitated living history WILLSBORO — Singed scraps of paper danced in the programs for local students and campers from Pok-O-Macbreeze. Cready Camps, which shares the same owner. Shiny objects sparkled from beds of black ash. As news trickled out about the conflagration, Erin DeBusk, And the scent of soot lingered in the late-summer air. marketing director of Pok-O-MacCready Camps, headed over

StateÊ opens BoreasÊ Ponds

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115th Assembly District race:

In time for autumn hikes, biking and paddle trips, new parking areas allow entry to former Finch Pruyn timberland NORTH HUDSON — State officials have opened former timberlands in the Boreas tract property to public access. The interim move comes as fall colors begin the slow march through the mountains. The newest addition to the Adirondack Park State Forest, Boreas has not been formally classified by the Department of EnKim vironmental Conservation in collaboration Dedam with the Adirondack Park Agency. Writer But state officials completed purchase of the 20,758-acre former Finch, Pruyn & Co. timberland last April. The real estate transaction with The Nature Conservancy cost New York state taxpayers $14.5 million. “The gate on Gulf Brook Road will open tomorrow,” DEC spokesman David Winchell told the Sun last Thursday, as Labor Day weekend got underway. Called an Interim Access Plan, public use includes entrance via Gulf Brook Road and seven miles of bike roads. The Gulf Brook Road winds 3.2 miles from Blue Ridge to the newly opened gate and an area that North Hudson Town Supervisor Ronald Moore calls “the four corners” at LaBier

to the site, where other staffers had begun to gather. “It was just completely devastating,” DeBusk said. “That was really difficult to me.” DeBusk spearheaded a crowdfunding campaign, which has raised $14,200 in just under a week. The goal is $82,000. Eventually, the homestead aims to replicate the structures as closely as possible to their original nineteenth century incarnations. “This will be a long and careful process, and to do so, we are enlisting the help of several qualified consultants, engineers,

An autumn view toward mountains surrounding Boreas Ponds, taken shortly after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state’s plan to purchase the former Finch, Pruyn & Co. timber tract and corporate retreat. Photo by Kim Dedam

Flow. The marshy flow is where the Boreas River flows out of a sequence of four ponds, an impoundment created by two existing dams built by Finch Pruyn. Roads throughout the property were established for logging truck traffic, fitted with culverts and bridge crossings. DEC said their interim plan also opens 25 miles on seven former logging roads to horse and “horse-drawn” wagons. “Paddlers will be able to access Boreas Pond and other waterways by carrying their canoes and kayaks 2.5 miles from the gate on Gulf Brook Road to LaBier Flow and then another half-mile between the flow and Boreas Pond,” DEC said in announcing the plan. >> See BOREAS | pg. 8

Poll shows Jones with early lead Kevin Mulverhill dismisses survey as “publicity stunt” By Pete DeMola

pete@suncommunitynews.com

PLATTSBURGH — A new poll in the New York State 115th District Assembly race shows Billy Jones with an early lead over Kevin Mulverhill. The poll of 400 district voters shows Jones, a Democrat, leading Republican Mulverhill 47 to 38 percent, with 15 percent undecided. Jones declined to comment on the results. “The only poll I’m concerned with is the poll on Election Day,” said Jones, chairman of the Franklin County Legislature. >> See ASSEMBLY RACE | pg. 9


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